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Romance

Neville is a thief with my picture

Dollars Lost: $16000

Lakeland, FL- 33815

Date Reported: June 22, 2025


Romance - Romance - A1 Home Pro Electrical and Plumbing

Chris Miles approached me on a website. He also uses Craig's List, Google business/maps, various directories and ads online, and dating sites like OurTime. He romances, charming and seems sincere, has a sob story to go with it, declares he just wants to help people (women especially). Then doesn't pay for anything and takes advantage. Upon ending the situation, he used my home address all over the internet as associated with his business to try to show legitimacy. He advertises being a licensed electrician and plumber, but he is not. He is actually a convicted felon.

Dollars Lost: $5000

Atlanta, GA- 30341

Date Reported: June 21, 2025


Romance - Romance Outreach - Spiritual Advisor Scam

So it was for tarot reading fraud. I payed them with Venmo , they pretended to be my friend and have romantic interest in me. I payed them for several donations and readings. Went to the hospital and ended up in spiritual psychosis. Lost almost 900 dollars worth of money

Dollars Lost: $800

OR

Date Reported: June 21, 2025


Romance - Investment Scam - Romance Outreach

In February 2025, I matched with a woman calling herself Arya, on a dating website called firedating.me. After exchanging a few messages over the website, we switched to WhatsApp. Her number is +852-5307-7116. She claimed to work for JP Morgan, doing equity issuance, financing cooperations, and company transfers from OTC markets to NASDAQ. We messaged for months, including texts, photos, audio calls, and video calls. Eventually, she offered to include me in her work: A publicly traded company looking to improve their stock price would apply to work with JP Morgan. She would then work with JPM clients to direct them to buy this stock at a certain time and price. She explained that she's done it before, and has invested her own personal money, and that the returns far exceed the market's. The first company is Lamy (ticker symbol LMMY). It's traded on OTC Pink. I agreed to buy $400,000 worth of the stock. Eventually, it crashed. At this point, she claimed she would be responsible to me to the end (the implication, as I understood it, being that she would compensate me for my losses). A month later, her team at JPM had identified a second company to work with. This company (ticker symbol ELPW), is traded on NASDAQ. At first, she said that there would be a short term project with less impressive gains. I put in $20,000 - placing a buy order well below the market price. She said that her trading team would lower the price, filling my buy order. It happened just like she said. A few hours later, on her instruction, I sold it for a 10% profit. A few weeks after that, her team was ready for a longer-term, higher-return project, again with ELPW. I put in $100,000. It soon crashed. After it crashed, out communication continued - she assured me that everything was under control and that the price would soon rise. Then, she stopped communicating with me altogether. Nearly two weeks without a single word from her, until a few days ago when she sent me one message, responding to my own messages to her. The end result: She's largely disappeared (though hasn't blocked me on WhatsApp, and her firedating.me profile is still active), and I've lost $500,000.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

HK

Date Reported: June 20, 2025


Romance - Sharon Kari

Approaches people on dating apps pretending to be a sugar mommy just looking to help people then sends a video of her “ex” saying that they had to send an approval payment to a clerk (name changes) in order to get the money sent to cashapp. Will persistently text you over multiple weeks to get the full amount.

Dollars Lost: $59

Kirkland, WA- 98034

Date Reported: June 20, 2025


Romance - Martin Henderson imposter/ romance scam

Facebook, messenger, Skype teams have all correspondence

Dollars Lost: $6000

Unknown Location

Date Reported: June 19, 2025


Romance - Briana Monique Wright

I was tricked into a romance scam. From June 2024-june 2025 I have sent this person over 25000. In BTC and other crypto currencies... And Razor Gift cards from Amazon

Dollars Lost: $25000

Dallas, TX

Date Reported: June 17, 2025


Romance - Romance

First he asked for two $50 Apple gift cards for his daughter’s birthday as his credit card had expired and he had to physically go to the bank when he got off the oil rig to straighten it out. Then He asked for money to buy airline tickets for him and his team to get back home in July at the end of their contract, due to same credit card issue. I refused both times.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Los Altos, NL-

Date Reported: June 17, 2025


Romance - Yichen Li

1. Said he was a UN doctor stationed in Ukraine.. I already knew him. He needed assistance to buy items because supposedly he had no finances allowed on him because he was in a war zone.. I charged roughly $30,000 on PayPal for things that he needed through two vendors. These purchases were facilitated by a woman named Lisa Matthias, who is from Britain. [email protected]. The two vendors on PayPal were a Lloyd yeboah Gilbert Macentee and Trina Jones (she stole $1400 from my bank account which my bank was able to recover). I was pressured to open a Citibank online, checking savings account so that.Yichen could begin paying me back some of the money owed me. He transferred $10,000 that supposedly was supposed to have come from his partial payment from the contract that he had with the UN. The money came from an account at PNC. The money was pulled back so the deposit never took place however Dr. Martin’s continued to use my online access to make fraudulent charges and he spent $2500 that did not belong to me, but it belonged to the bank. Today, 16 June, I learned that the money that he deposited never was deposited as he tried to pressure me to give the husband of this Lisa $4000 as a payment for a loan that he got.. I checked with the embassy in Kyiv and I was told that Yichen Li Martins born January 24, 1970 never had a passport and was not in the Ukraine. He has also pressured me to send large amount of money by wire to a person in Great Britain. First name: LAURA Middle name : MARIA family name. PINCZES Address: 60 edgefield avenue Postcode: ne33ae City: Newcastle Upon Tyne Country : United Kingdom Phone number: +447500450078 This person was wired several thousand dollars. It seems that Dr. Li was given $8.5 million dollars and gold bars by a Swiss soldier that he was treating that had been executed. He claimed that he was going to take the money out of the country and return it to his family.. I told him to give it to the Ukraine because it was probably stolen from them. He also managed to embezzle about $3500 from me toward the cost of moving the box out of the medical compound where he worked and then to Great Britain. The money is supposedly being held in a safety deposit box. As I said he is getting out July 5, and I assume that he will be going to try to get the money to bring it into the United States. At the end, which is the more recent times, he has had this mad dash to buy iTunes and steam cards this George Matthias, the husband of the woman who did all the transactions on PayPal, had this mad desire to be paid with these for the money that the doctor owed him. Also, during this time, the wife’s father had some sort of an accident which required him to have a leg amputated and of course the doctor decided to give them $20,000.. as he gave me $10,000 and it was taken back. I tried to contact PNC to find out if the money had been stolen from someone else and put in my account, but they would not help me. They said that they would work with Citibank if Citibank asked them. Citibank did confirm that the $10,000 in the form of two $5000 deposit came from PNC.. They were not able to tell me if this PNC account was in fact, the one holding Dr. Li’s contract payment. I did an online search and learned that you and doctors receive stipends for six months of service that are in the neighborhood of $625,000.. but in light of everything that happened of late.., topped off with the incident with Citibank, I decided to report the doctor for for fraud and grand theft. I will provide you any information that you need to get back my money, including an itemized accounting of what I spent on PayPal out of my bank account on wires on gift cards, and on exorbitant fees… I think that $40,000 is close but I actually believe it’s more. I will provide you with anything I have. I will bring this to settlement and justice and prevent it from ever happening to anyone. I also was in contact with his son. Sun is nine years old born March 23, 2016. Lives with the mother who was separated and getting divorced from the father. [email protected]

Dollars Lost: $40000

Sacramento, CA

Date Reported: June 16, 2025


Romance - Romance / Investment scam

I matched with someone on a dating app which suggested to chat on whatsapp. After introductions they mentioned retirement goals were part of relationships. They advised they could show me how to invest. I was hesistant but went along, They walked me through creating accounts with cashapp, coinbase and a blockchain pro account for trading. They walked me through a small successful trading transaction which I was able to withdraw successfully. A few days later the insisted there were favorable trading trends and that I should try again. This time I purchases $1000 in bitcoin but with the transfers from cash app to coinbase the total amount used in investing was about $800. Within and hour and a half or so I made an extremely large profit. This individual then advised that taxes need to be paid in order to access my earnings and for me to contact customer service for information. Customer service was through a chat and said i needed to pay $35k in taxes within three days to the blockchain platform to be able to access earnings. Customer service stated that taxes could not be deducted from the earnings and that the platform would remit taxes to the IRS directly. This individual in whats app suggested a loan or asking friends and family. Customer service had referenced an archived IRS Notice (2014-21) which according to the IRS website is a historical/archival document that may not reflect current laws or policies. Im not sure if the earnings are real but I will not be paying block chain any taxes and will not be taking any steps to protect myself from this scam.

Dollars Lost: $800

Doral, FL

Date Reported: June 15, 2025


Romance - Anthony Prather

Anthony Prather said he was in army we got into a relationship online he sent check books and stuff and wanted me to sign them and take them to a bank to deposit them then kept asking to download bitcoin and got my license info and bank account information as well had me to send all my money from cash to Him

Dollars Lost: $4500

OH

Date Reported: June 14, 2025


Romance - Dylan Wang

i talked with the Supposed Dylan Wang for over 6 months it started small asking for 100 bucks here and there then came the i love you's and i want to be with you's then he asked $2000 for a membership card from his "management" and after that he asked for $5000 to take care of his costs of travel and security but when the time came to meet him there was a delay and we had to push the meeting back after that i was asked to pay a $3000 re-schedule fee and after that i heard nothing from them

Dollars Lost: $7500

Omaha, NE- 68178

Date Reported: June 13, 2025


Romance - romance

I received a Friend Request through FB Messenger, was hesitant and always avoided accepting in the past. This time was different and I accepted. We chatted regularly for several weeks, he claimed to be a Commanding General in the US Army deployed to Syria. I ran a PI report to confirm certain things he said, what was posted on FB and to confirm some questions I raised with him that he answered. The report verified all the answers and information I was seeking. He used all the right military language and explanations when I was uncertain, I did my due diligence throughout the conversation, so I thought. One evening he said, All senior military officials have been asked to withdraw their personal belongings from all private security companies here in Syria because of the information the UN delegate's secret service agent passed to them that ISIS and bandits are planning an attack on some strategic locations here and we have been given 72 hours to get this done. I have a portfolio stored in one of the private security companies here and it means so much to me. I'm extremely worried because I can't afford to lose it if I don't get it out on time. I have a portfolio deposited in a security warehouse here in Syria. This portfolio represents years of hard work and means the world to me. I cannot afford to lose it during this chaos." He made arrangements through a logstics company to have his portfolio transported with a diplomat back to the states for delivery to me for safekeeping, but there was a small fee that needed to be paid. I verified the company and even contacted the company about the name of the diplomat as it was a very common name to ensure he was an employee. They confirmed as such. What drew my attention was the email address that caused me to pause and question, but it was confirmed as valid, so I wired the money. Had a tracking number and watched the portfolio. Well it got to Customs in Syria and they needed more money, then it arrived in the states and there was more money needed to pass through customs. The longer the portfolio sat in customs the fee went up each week. I saw that the portfolio had indeed arrived at JFK Customs, but I could not meet the needs any longer. The question that I kept wondering about was how is this diplomat from Syria travelling to the US with this portfolio able to stay the entire time? Eventually I stopped responding to the General. I did not block him because I wanted to preserve whatever information could be traced behind the communications.

Dollars Lost: $55850

Unknown Location

Date Reported: June 12, 2025


Romance - Crypo

Scammer messaged me on Facebook, then FB messenger. She suggested I download and use WhatsApp. We connected on WhatsApp and she described herself owning a fashion design studio in San Francisco. She also mentioned Bitcoin trading interests and offered help me make profits in trading Bitcoin with an initial $2,100. She guided me through the setup process and had me download Crypto trading and wallet apps and set up the accounts. Step by step she walked me through all of it and seemed to have an interest in my life. She explained that there are a lot of scammers using her pictures but she was not a scammer. We traded pictures and chatted about various things and eventually she suggested a video call. Scammer looked like the girl in the pictures, (but thinking back it most likely was an AI filter). Scammer said her Uncle has a group of people that trade on NESBITTCO.COM and offered me the opportunity to join them. It started out OK, We made some trades and it seemed i made a few hundred dollars per 30s trades.. She showed me screenshots of her trades and profits of larger amounts and suggested I add more funds to trade with. all seems normal at first, I wired $50,000 from my savings account to Strike (a bitcoin buy/sell app). Scammer walked me through the process of sending the funds to the trading website and it went from there. Scammer offered to front $72,000 from her bitcoin assets for me to trade with also. seemed very generous, so I went along with it. After trading for a month I needed to withdraw funds, Scammer walked me through the process and it worked. I was able to withdraw and return $10,000 to my bank account. All seemed good. We continued chatting daily, watching videos and movies at the same time discussing them after.. We would node trade 1 or 2 times a week as time went on. In February she suggested I get a home equity loan for trading and making even more profits and just pay it back after a month. I ended up doing this for $191,000, (very bad decision) One day the trading site stopped working, scammer assured me my funds are safe, and it was just a domain name change. Scammer gave me the new name and it was working again. The website did this 4-5 times total ending on FRBIT.CC. I decided to withdraw funds in the amount of $65,000 a day in April and she walked me through the process step by step. Once I hit OK it was done and she said I just have to wait a few hours or 24h at most (they never arrived). The next day she suggested I contact customer service and ask why the funds haven't arrived yet. BIT customer service claimed that an error in the receiving address caused an anomaly with my account and I needed to pay $65,000 to fix the issue within 7 days. (Scammer said she had never heard of this issue ever before now) Since just about all of my funds were stuck in this FRBIT.CC site I had to come up with $33,000 and scammer offered the rest ($32,000), however it was not in the 7 day allotted time. Scammer assured me we were good. Customer service then said I was required to pay 1% of the total amount in my account before my account could be used again ($29,969) late fees. Scammer promised she would help with this, but never did. I managed to come up with $10,000, and she promised the rest. She then claimed a tariff issue caused her to have to use Mexico or Canada to get past the fees on stuff from China, so she used $7,000 of her $20k. Scammer promised the $13,000 was for me to use only, nothing else. She walked me through paying the 10k and another $7k to BIT customer service again, and when she was supposed to transfer the rest, she claimed her bank card was frozen and could not do anything with her funds. Scammer claimed the bank and accused her of money laundering and froze her account. Scammer also claimed her uncle was being targeted for espionage and was under investigation by an MP (all lies). She then left me to gather the $13,000 to restore my account. I refinanced my home equity loan and came up with the funds , but by this time FRBIT.CC stopped working and I could not access the site.. Scammer assured me this was normal, and she would get the name. After a few days she told me the new name, www.cbocn.com or (CBMWW.COM.) After creating an account she said I just need to verify by uploading me CDL and everything will work after I pay the final $13,000 late fee even though the site was totally different. What choice did I have if I wanted to retrieve anything at this point. She had me contact customer service on the CBOT site and they said i need to pay the "funds". went through process again, and paid the $13,000 (final mistake). I attempted to withdraw a small amount and it has yet to go through, just says "confirmation in progress". its been a week and customer service stopped responding altogether.. This person has caused me a to be in a financial mess. I hope one day they are caught and tried and convicted. This has caused me major anxiety and I doubt I will ever recover. I know it was a big mistake to trust this person, the script this scammer followed on me worked too well. She has contacted me less and less over the timeline. Scammer then came up with that I have to pay %10 taxes on withdraws made from the CBOT site in order to prevent people evading paying taxes on withdraws. total lies, but I found out that that is the last part of this type of scam and I will never get my funds back. This has been a nightmare. Crypto trading is all a scam to me now. Please help. I'm dreading filing taxes in 2026 now as this is the worst nightmare ever.

Dollars Lost: $400000

San Francisco, CA- 94133

Date Reported: June 10, 2025


Romance

He romances me then made it seem as if he was going to send me money to help with bills showed pictures and everything shipped by plane and supposedly I had to pay a custom fee in order to have the package delivered

Dollars Lost: $1000

Unknown Location

Date Reported: June 9, 2025


Romance - romance

The Scammer Came to me as a Date Asking Preferences between Mexico and Asia

Dollars Lost: $3000

San Diego, CA

Date Reported: June 8, 2025


Romance - Johnny james

A man name Johnny James got me set up on a vulurnable relationship with a retard I can't do nothing with bad people don't let them secretly set up me.romance scam to the maximum.

Dollars Lost: $4000

Lakeland, FL- 33805

Date Reported: June 8, 2025


Romance - ROMANCE SCAM

Target on Hinge dating app. Then he will try to get you to invest small amount on swiftbitoptions. It will hit a profit a few times. Then ask for a top of which means you put more money in. I believe the end goal is for him to help you make a withdrawal to a third party account to either take the money or he will encourgage you to buy a home which seems like money laundering. He claims to teach people how to invest.

Dollars Lost: $13500

OK

Date Reported: June 6, 2025


Romance - Romance

I stopped this scam and ceased contact after receiving the following message from this individual on Twitter “ Well basically, I'm just looking for some attention and Someone to trust and share with. All I want is companionship and having someone to talk to make me smile while I also take care all your needs and place you on a weekly allowance of $500” and then “ sweetheart I’m ready to spoil you well enough if you can be straightforward and sincere with me. I have a lot of money to do that anyway” and “ My dear I just need to test your as first cause have seen a lot in my past…. but I don’t take that as an excuse to not help people again so let me know if I can trust and rely on you”

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Chicago, IL

Date Reported: June 6, 2025


Romance

I was instructed to send money ($1200.00} to the account in Oregon as a payment for them( unknown police?) who was said to have confiscated a box being sent to me from a US Army soldier said to be currently located at a base in Aleppo, Syria . The company doing the transfer was the Innocent red cross company out of Frankfurt Germany. He referred to himself in texts as Mr Innocent and said I should pay them to release the box as it contained valuable documents and gifts . he was afraid they would open it and find currency? He kept urging me to just send the money to the account at Wells Fargo Bank. My name and address had been used by the soldier in question whom I met on a dating site on social media. He assured me the package would be released then by the police and delivered to me? I have no idea who the scammers are or where they are from or where these police are supposed to be. The soldier has not texted since he says he mailed the package?

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Unknown Location

Date Reported: June 5, 2025


Romance - Romance

Met on facebook aprox. 9 months ago. Texted for a while and still do. He has money in Chase but accounts are frozen due to fraudulent activity. Says he is stuck in Paris and needs money to get home. $1200.00 for airfare from Paris

Dollars Lost: $10000

West Palm Beach, FL

Date Reported: June 3, 2025


Romance - Online Dating Site

I joined a dating site called darkyria. I paid $20 for one month membership then decided I wanted to cancel subscription after the month/membership ended. They do not have an option available to cancel. I contacted them and never heard back. They are still charging me. It's a scam

Dollars Lost: $50

Unknown Location

Date Reported: June 2, 2025


Romance - Romance

payments made to buy credits to the online website for credit usage to chat online with members

Dollars Lost: $60000

Unknown Location

Date Reported: June 2, 2025


Romance

I met her on line 3 1/2 yrs ago. Took my dumb *** a while to register this. Ive contacted Romance scam lawyers, ×2 and i think there scammers also. Plus she dod an IRS FORMS on me to make it look like an inheritance from her late father. Im in big shit from them akso. Im scared. I dont know what to do. Yes i am still talking to her. Well as of yesterday. Today i decided to tell you. I met a new woman. A good woman and i had to sit her down and explain all of this. Wow huh. ******* ******* ****** is on Whatsapp right now mad cause i wont answer. She has a inheritance check she says thst takes the both of us to cash. That means me driving to Missouri . I just cant. I wont. Sure i need the money im so ******* broke now. I have pictures of her and the latest check. CAN YOU HELP ME ? NO ONE KNOWS OF THIS BUT YOU AND ME AND MY NEW FRIEND.

Dollars Lost: $150000

Saint Louis, MO- 63108

Date Reported: June 2, 2025


Romance - Christopher Owen

A person name Christopher Owen from LA USA was befriending my wife trying to use her to claim money from Europe trying to get her to claim 2 million dollars to be his executor of his estate

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Unknown Location

Date Reported: June 2, 2025


Romance - romance

Romance scammer convinced me to use a fake trading platform promising huge returns on investment, "for our future together".

Dollars Lost: $85000

San Jose, CA

Date Reported: May 30, 2025


Romance - Romance and Investment Scam

https://kdtradeoptions.com Check the phishing/malicious content option “This site is being used in a crypto romance scam to trick people into fake investments and steal Bitcoin.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

NY

Date Reported: May 27, 2025


Romance - Romance

The scammer claimed to be a military officer, currently on deployment in Israel. Was gonna be there for 2 weeks time and then would come to my hometown to visit some distant family, with whom he’d lost contact with. And while he was in my hometown he wanted to meet. Been texting for a week, and today he claimed he unexpectedly will be deployed to Iraq, and will need to send some of his belongings while there until he comes to my hometown, asking if he can send them to me, as to which he will need my adress. Ofc I didn’t give it, and insisted I needed further proof that what he’s saying is true. After I try to test him with phone call, video chat, send a video through text, as to which he has excuses why he cannot deliver, he turns to guilt tripping, and tries to change my mind by shame and guilt, which of course is the last tell I need that this is a scam. I pray no one else, less prepared, gets deceived by this person.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

AK

Date Reported: May 27, 2025


Romance - John Burk

I was introduced to this person by my friend who I trust greatly. I have photo proof plus time stamps to add for the additional transactions not recorded. At first I initially thought that this guy was the real deal as he sent a photo and additionally we talked on the phone. He kept on lovebombing me telling me that he wants to spend the rest of his life with me. I fell for this and was manipulated to believe that what we had was real. He was checking in on me and making sure I was okay. All the scamming came from when he kept on asking for money for flights. Telling me that gift cards were expiring and that he will take care of all the funds once he comes back. After two months of trying to get this person back, he sent me some pictures in which I did a reverse search. I realized that the person I was talking to was taking the identity of a former US marine corps member. The person was gaslighting in saying that I was mistaken and that his phone was hacked recently. I asked him to send a photo of Turkey to ensure that he was real. The individual sent me an edited image of one he already sent in addition to a background that could be searched online. I confronted him with this information and he was saying that it all comes from his phone being hacked. At this point, I blocked the individual and filed the report. I just want guidance on how to get justice and to potentially recover funds as this was quite a bit and I don't have receipts saved.

Dollars Lost: $3000

Unknown Location

Date Reported: May 26, 2025


Romance

We started talking in January just regular tight talk and then in the last month he's talking and all this love stuff how he loves me he wants to get out of the movie business he wants to get out of Singapore where he's filming right now so he had me contact supposedly fast in the furious family email I have pictures of those emails I have snapshots of some of our communications once he had me email them now they're trying to get a cost of how much it's going to cost to bring him back over here when it's not even him they need to know my personal information and I'm not giving that up so I have not answered them back yet but I do have photos snapshots of conversations and snapshots of the emails sent to me and them

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Unknown Location

Date Reported: May 25, 2025


Romance

Asked credit credit he could pay my credit card so I can get Apple Card’s the payment was returned and now I use a over balance

Dollars Lost: $1600

MA

Date Reported: May 24, 2025


Romance - Whatsapp romance

Romantic scam. Vet forceful n demanding. Met on WhatsApp n then he started texting me through IMessage into my texting. Then he was able to read my phone. Got info n took 2 loans out in my name. Left me negative in my account. And emptied my credit card.promising to pay back n he gave a fake check. My credit card told me the payment back is a fake accounts. Now I’ve lost money, had to change my account at my bank and he ruined my credit score. I’m not working so this is devastating.

Dollars Lost: $12000

Unknown Location

Date Reported: May 23, 2025


Romance - Online Retail Scam

I was on Tik Tok messenger and the person messaged me up there we were talking and she said something about a clothing brand and she showed me images of her clothes at first I didn't think anything of it because I thought she was promoting an actual clothing brand so I wanted to by some clothes so I gave her $*** dollars because the clothes looked really nice. Then not only did I not get my clothes, but she stole my information to open a business account, and she made me the co account owner. 

On top of that she took out a loan and tried to make me send money to pay the loan off. I never authorized my name to place on the loan in the first place now that "bank" is harassing me saying I need to pay back the $**** the person took out. Then to make matters worse they keep calling me asking me for money they wanted $*** dollars. This has to be one of the most frustrating things I've ever dealt with. I wouldn't wish to happen to anyone so just be mindful of who you communicate with on the Internet.

Dollars Lost: $820

Bensenville, IL- 60106

Date Reported: May 21, 2025


Romance - Romance - Cryptocurrency Scam

I met a man on hinge dating app. A few weeks into our conversations, ee exchanged numbers and started sharing our values and morals and future goals. He started teaching me about crypto investing and promised profits on trading. I saw profits on trading. I invested everything I had. When my contribution became $40k, my wallet on trading platform became frozen.

Dollars Lost: $40000

CA

Date Reported: May 21, 2025


Romance

An Instagram model DM’d the target of the scam - this all started as a “romance”. Switched to the Telegram app to communicate. The money amounts started small as gifts for purses, phones, etc. And then came the “investment opportunity”. The target was encouraged to send large sums of money to a fake crypto app with the promise that it would triple in 6 months. The app has fake money in it that cannot be accessed. Their website is https://capitalcrestmarket.com/

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Los Angeles, CA

Date Reported: May 20, 2025


Romance - Romance Scam

This woman tried to scam my elderly dad into giving all bank account info. Got some money. She was stating she wanted to build a life with him. 

Dollars Lost: $2333.33

PA

Date Reported: May 19, 2025


Romance - Romance Dating Scam

I was contacted by someone telling me they wanted to ** ** ***** ***** *** provide me with a weekly allowance next thing I knew he was showing me a screenshot of where he was sending me money through cash app, then he started talking about how I needed to pay the fees to get the money. I told him I am not going to pay to get any money that is being sent to me. I’ve never had to do that before. The next thing I knew a few days later my account was missing $600.00 in total which had been taken out over about a week through cash app via my bank account to purchase bitcoin. I contacted the federal trade commission but because I didn’t have brokers name they couldn’t help me. I only have a bitcoin address to where it went as it showed up on one of the transactions. I then received an email from PayPal saying thank you for your purchase today 5/19/25. I contacted the customer support number on the email unfortunately I later found out this was a fraudulent email. Only after talking with them and they transferring to the federal trades commission (supposedly) which also I found out was fake after I got scammed in to going out and buying two $500.00 apple for everything cards and providing the person who said he was from the FTC with the Apple Card numbers. He then said to call him back and when I tried his number was no longer valid.

Dollars Lost: $1600

Unknown Location

Date Reported: May 19, 2025


Romance

Scammer used romance to gain access to my personal information, SSN, address, credit cards, etc. After the relationship went sour he started scamming me with harassment, threats, intimidation and theft. He also used others to help him demand money.

Dollars Lost: $50

Memphis, TN- 38117

Date Reported: May 19, 2025


Romance - Imposter Dooordash, Hacked Account,

My DoorDash Dasher account was hacked. The hacker changed both my email address and phone number, and now I cannot access my account or reset the password. I have already contacted DoorDash Support via email ([email protected]) and social media (Twitter), but I have received no help or resolution. Here are my details: - Full Name: [parvinder singh] - Old Email: [email protected] - Old Phone Number: +1 (909) 268-8678 - Date of Birth: [09/24/1991] - Last 4 Digits of Bank Account: [e.g., 9488] - License Number: [1525] - Last Date I Dashed: [e.g., May 5/16 2025]at 3:13 pm - Dasher Location: Rancho, California Last order from tikka and taco bell customers nane justin I’m requesting urgent help to recover and secure my account. This has caused me financial and emotional stress. I’m willing to provide ID and any verification if needed. Please help me get in touch with DoorDash’s account recovery or security team. Thank you.

Dollars Lost: $1100

Rancho Cucamonga, CA- 91739

Date Reported: May 19, 2025


Romance - Celebrity Fan page Scam

The person contacted me on FB Messenger pretending to be Michael b Jordan he asked me to join telegram because his manager was monitoring his chats. He would send pictures of Jordan but would never call I got suspicious when he asked for $400.00 for a regular and $700.00 for a VIP fan card which makes no sense. He said with a fan card you can get better access to him.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Sherman Oaks, CA

Date Reported: May 17, 2025


Romance - romance

I was having surgery and she said she would come down to help me through recovery but had to pay certain bills before she could leave. I gave her the money and then another bill would pop up. She said she made it to Miami International Airport as she was coming to Orlando, Fl. but all of a sudden she had to go back because her father called from the hospital and she was unable to understand him. After research, I found out her father is actually her father in law. Needless to say, she never showed up.

Dollars Lost: $14000

Mesa, AZ- 85209

Date Reported: May 16, 2025


Romance - Romance

The scammer obtained only the new email address. The scammer provided only general information like city and state in the U.S.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Marengo, IA- 52301

Date Reported: May 16, 2025


Romance - Romance

Pretends to be Cortana Blue (webcam model). Promises to "meet up" if I give her Apple/Footlocker cards.

Dollars Lost: $40

Austin, TX

Date Reported: May 15, 2025


Romance - Romance Scam

She said she was going to Dubai and close on a7.6 Million deal When she got there she was short now 9350.00 to have material shipped to Dubai to fulfill the contract.This all started on April 12th.She contacted me promising to pay me back within 5 days of initial start up of contract and promising we would be together upon completion of contract.The last I heard from her was Thursday before Mothers Day still looking for me to send her what ever amount I could.Please put an end to this Evil person .She says she just turned 71 and claims to follow the scriptures for the past 35 years

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Scootsboro, AL

Date Reported: May 15, 2025


Romance - Online Dating Scam

This site and all the Astrasoft Projects LTD - Ifigeneias 14, 3036, Limassol, Cyprus sites are using bots and AI generated photos mixed with some real ones. The whole hustle is to get you to chat for 5000 credits so that you can get an AI’s contact information.

Dollars Lost: $40

Unknown Location

Date Reported: May 14, 2025


Romance

On Facebook became friends then threaten me with harm Said he has powerful friends and i have no idea what he could do to me

Dollars Lost: $7000

CA

Date Reported: May 14, 2025


Romance

The person contacted me by a text message sent to me by an unknown caller on April 3 2025 After a month of texting and 2 short phone calls they convinced me they they were very wealthy and wanted to share ways that I could become wealthy to using cryptocurrency. They had me set up accounts with Coinbase, imToken, cash app, and finally mdexus.net. I invested $500 to start with and they took me through the trading process and I made money quickly from it. They convinced me to add $10,000 to it and I made money quickly from that. Then they wanted me to add $70,000 and I refused. They turned on me and stopped talking to me and said that they would no longer help me. That’s when I got suspicious and did some research.

Dollars Lost: $10500

San Marino, CA- 91108

Date Reported: May 14, 2025


Romance - Lieutenant General in Iraq has 20 million dollars

Met this guy from military claiming to be a lieutenant general he made me feel loved and i thouht he was real he said his accounts were frozen and he had to get a box out of iraq he said he saved royalty from isis and got to safety and in return they him this box worth about 20 million dollars and he was retiring and they were told they had to get valuables out of country by a certain dat needed 2550 to get it out which sent ups and then customs got the carrier and they needed another 7500 all i had was 6500 i sent that ups overnight and they said they only got 3500 of it thats when i figured out i was scammed

Dollars Lost: $9200

Unknown Location

Date Reported: May 14, 2025


Romance - Crypto/Investment - Romance Scam

Semexbite.com is a fraudulent website. It is engaging in a cryptocurrency scam known as “pig butchering.” I was manipulated into transferring a significant amount of funds to this platform under false pretenses. After depositing the funds, I have been unable to withdraw any amount from my account. The platform has effectively locked my funds and moved them without my consent to a private wallet address—clear evidence of theft and fraud.

Dollars Lost: $50000

NY

Date Reported: May 14, 2025


Romance - Tickmill

I was matched on bumble to Loe. Someone impersonate as Loe with phone number +1 (213) 635-7316 attempted to get me to the link. https://m.tickmillglobalfe.cc/ Thank you to BBB, I found complaint about this link. I blocked his number on WA and he attempted to contact me with different number ?+1 (808) 302-3596? on WA. I appreciate BBB and the person who posted complaint on BBB about that link, have saved me . from this scammer.

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Mountain View, CA

Date Reported: May 14, 2025


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